Mandy McElhinney

Mandy McElhinney (born 1971/1972) is an Australian actress best known for playing Rhonda in AAMI insurance advertisements. She appeared on the sketch comedy television series, Comedy Inc., from 2003 to 2006. She appeared as Gina Rinehart in the telemovie The House of Hancock, alongside Sam Neill in 2015.

Early life

McElhinney was born in Perth, Western Australia, to Rosemary and Andrew, and raised in Leeman. She has a younger sister, Hayley, who is also an actress. They both took drama and dance lessons as teenagers. She was bullied for her red hair as a child and so she became some what of a class clown making people laugh. Her 'stupid' impersonations as child have in some way given her the desire to entertain.

Roles

McElhinney is known for appearing in many other Australian television series and films including a recurring role in 2002 and 2003 on MDA, small roles in various crime and medical dramas, and a guest role as a shop assistant in Kath & Kim. She also appeared in the film The Bank. She is also a regular in stage productions, including with the Melbourne and the Sydney Theatre Companies Recently, she starred as Rhonda in the AAMI Safe Driver rewards series of commercials. The ad and her character's love story within it, consequently became a major part of Australian popular culture. She stars as strict Matron Frances Bolton in the Australian drama series Love Child. She played the role of mining magnate Gina Rinehart in Nine's 2015 telemovie The House of Hancock.

Genevieve Morris

Genevieve Morris (born 1967) is an Australian actress best known for appearing on the popular comedy series Comedy Inc.

She has also appeared in Blue Heelers and the detective series City Homicide as pathologist, Rhonda Lafferty. She has performed in various stage productions since the early 1990s including the 2009 comedy show Spontaneous Broadway as Dame Helen Highwater, alongside Ross Daniels, Julia Zemiro and Geoff Paine.

In 2010, she appeared in multiple television commercials for ANZ bank as "Barbara the bank manager". She starred on the cancelled television series Ben Elton Live From Planet Earth in 2011.

References

Comedy Inc.

Comedy Inc. was an Australian sketch comedy television series, which ran on the Nine Network from 19 February 2003 to 26 December 2007. The series was produced by Crackerjack Productions. It first premiered in February 2003 in the new wave of Australian sketch comedy shows being launched across the free-to-air channels along with Big Bite and skitHOUSE. Since the end of the series episodes have been repeated on the Foxtel cable channel, The Comedy Channel and during 2009, reruns were shown on Nine HD before the channel's closure.

Cast

Comedy Inc. (Canadian TV series)

Comedy Inc. is a Canadian sketch comedy television series, which airs on CTV, A-Channel and The Comedy Network.

Cast

The show starred Roman Danylo, Aurora Browne, Jen Goodhue, Albert Howell, Terry McGurrin, Winston Spear, Jennifer Robertson, Renee Percy, Gavin Stephens and Nikki Payne.

Awards

Comedy Inc. was nominated for a Canadian Comedy Award for Best Writing in a Television Series in 2006. The series won the Gold World Medal at the New York Festivals for Best TV Variety Program in both 2007 and 2008.

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Gabriel Andrews

Gabriel Andrews is an Australian television, film and stage actor. He is best known for the hundreds of roles he played on the popular sketch comedy TV show Comedy Inc.

Career

Born in Sydney, he is a graduate of the National Institute of Dramatic Art. He appeared on G.P., Water Rats, Home and Away, and All Saints, before doing three years on Nine Network's Comedy Inc. He has appeared in several films, including Children and The Time Game. He has performed in many Sydney theatre productions and has done a host of readings, short stories, poems and journals for ABC Radio National, most notably a well-loved reading of Kenneth Cook's Australian classic novel Wake in Fright.

He is also an accomplished singer and violinist. Originally classically trained, he now sings and plays blues/jazz.

Due to his early beginnings as a professional musician and actor, he was fortunate enough to have had the privilege of performing on all four stages of the Sydney Opera House (Concert Hall, Opera Theatre, Drama Theatre, Playhouse) by the age of seventeen.

Ben Oxenbould

Ben Oxenbould (born 2 March 1969) is an Australian actor and comedian, best known for his work in the Australian film and television industry. His brother Jamie Oxenbould is also an actor, as is Jamie's son, Ed Oxenbould.

Early career

In 1980, Oxenbould was cast as "Hubert 'Fatty' Finn" in the film Fatty Finn. He then appeared in several films and television programs, including Home and Away, G. P. and Echo Point. Oxenbould was cast as the character "Ben" in the sitcom, Hey Dad..!, appearing on the show between 1991 and 1994.

Philanthropy

In 2000 Oxenbould helped set up the BBAS Memorial School, a school in Bardia, Nepal, a remote Nepalese mountain village. In 2005, he organised a fundraiser for the school, which was supported by Australian entertainers, including singers Tex Perkins and Tim Rogers and comedian Akmal Saleh and artwork by the school's students was auctioned.

Comedy

From 2003 to 2005 Oxenbould featured as one of the ensemble cast of the sketch comedy series Comedy Inc., in which he was noted for several characters, including his parody of cricketer Shane Warne. A review of Comedy Inc: The Late Shift published in The Australian in 2005 described Oxenbould's performance in the show as: "continu[ing] to display a gift for parody and a range that goes from high camp to seriously blue collar." He left the program in 2005.